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That was a great read (still reading actually)
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Years later I still can't decide which part is my favorite, Lambda Calculus and Pascal being denounced for being insufficiently C like, Ritchie's project prior to C/Unix, or the Java/C# descriptions (although C#'s more rapid evolution since the piece was written has gone a large way to undermining the implication Iry made for them).
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Microsoft is killing off Windows Phone 8.1 support today, more than three years after the company first introduced the update. This is how it ends, not with a bang, but with a post to Microsoft's support site
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That headline overstates it slightly - Windows Phone 10 limps on.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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The headline is correct. The w10 version is called Windows Mobile again. Windows Phone is dead. (Until the next random rebranding anyway.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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It's still rather click-baity.
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And we all know there's never any clickbait in The Insider.
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Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Well, I always thought there had to be something in the rumors that Kent used to write for the Daily Mail. 
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Savage.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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By those standards, as the last major update to WP8.1 was in 2014, its been dead for a while.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I killed off my WC WP 8.1 a couple of months ago and freed myself from the technological stone age I was stuck in.
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Android - it's cost effective. And I don't like Apple UI and Android is a bit easier to customize or reflash should the need arise.
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Emails show the security-software maker developed products for the FSB and accompanied agents on raids. Dun dun DUN!
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See how many total solar eclipses are left in your lifetime Looks like a good one in 2090 if you want to wait a bit
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So at age 88 I may see a partial one - if I will be able to see anything at all...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation has released this year's "Who Has Your Back" report, which grades tech giants and some smaller companies based on how they handle government requests for data. "Who loves ya, baby?"
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Back in ye olde days of the information superhighway, curious newbies had an easy way to see how websites worked: View Source. And what of the poor tailor? The soldier? The spy? Does anyone code for them?
Yes, Wired. Deal.
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Chinese researchers have successfully transmitted quantum entangled particles from a station on earth to a satellite orbiting far overhead. "I signed aboard this ship to practice medicine, not to have my atoms scattered back and forth across space by this gadget. "
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Well at least they put 'teleported' in quotes.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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The real excitement today is what the future holds for the Subversion project. "WHO?"
I think the Venn diagram of active users and developers of Subversion might be becoming pretty much a single circle.
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Subversion has one good feature -- it is therefore the second-best Code Management System out there.
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I agree, and might even put it at the top for ease of use and use for non-devs. Sadly, the market picked a different, weird house-like creature.
TTFN - Kent
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Can you please introduce me to your secret and tell me which is the best?
Thank you in advance.
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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DEC's Code Management System (CMS) -- it runs on only OpenVMS (the best Operating System in the world).
All others are unusable. I still seek something similar for lesser Operating Systems (e.g. Windows).
In 2009, I began writing my own homage to it, using SQL Server* as the 'pository. The basic functionality took about two months to develop, but then I reached a major decision point in the UI and I still haven't chosen a direction. 
* SQL Server 2008, but I later realized that SQL Server CE would allow me to carry the whole thing on a flash drive, so I re-worked the DAL.
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